Audiology Services

Identifying hearing loss at the earliest opportunity is key to helping children achieve their full potential.
Hearing loss can affect your child’s speech and language development, school performance and social relationships.
Our Rehabilitation Services Department provides a multidisciplinary approach to intervention that will alleviate the adverse effects of hearing loss on speech and language development, academic performance, and cognitive development.

We offer the following audiology services:

Diagnostic Hearing evaluations

Otoacoustic emissions (OAE) evaluation

Behavioral Hearing tests

Immittance Audiometry

Speech Audiometry

Newborn Hearing Screenings

Auditory brainstem response (ABR) evaluations (Sedated and Unsedated)

Auditory processing disorder (APD) evaluations

Your child may need a full hearing evaluation if he or she:

Did not pass the universal newborn hearing screening at the time of birth

Is not reaching auditory developmental milestones

Doesn’t respond to things said, or doesn’t seem to notice when spoken to

Asks you to repeat things (more for older children than infants)

Has difficulty locating the direction of a sound or voice

Starts talking later than children the same age (based on reports by teachers, etc)

Can’t say words and sentences the right way

Has difficulty hearing one voice when several people are talking

Misses quick or soft sounds

Is performing poorly at school

Has diseases that can cause hearing loss

Has been diagnosed with other conditions that sometimes include hearing loss

Has been taking medical treatments that may have hearing loss as a side effect

Has parents or grandparents with hearing problems (hearing loss is hereditary)

Are my child’s auditory skills developing normally?

Click each box to learn about auditory developmental milestones in children.

Auditory development in newborns (Birth–3 Months)

Startles to loud sounds

Quiets or smiles when spoken to

Seems to recognize your voice and quiets if crying

Increases or decreases sucking behavior in response to sound

Auditory development in infants (4–6 Months)

Moves eyes in direction of sounds

Responds to changes in tone of your voice

Notices toys that make sounds

Pays attention to music

Auditory development in infants (7 Months–1 Year)

Enjoys games like peek-a-boo and pat-a-cake

Turns and looks in direction of sounds

Listens when spoken to

Recognizes words for common items like "cup", "shoe", "book", or "juice"